Data visualization heuristics for the physical sciences - ScienceDirect
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We enumerate six general rules and provide examples of bad and improved data graphics, and provide source code to illustrate the generation of the improved figures.
The six rules we enumerate are:
(1) Generate figures programmatically;
(2) Multivariate data calls for multivariate representation;
(3) Showing the data beats mean ± standard deviation;
(4) Choose colormaps that match the nature of the data;
(5) Use small multiples; and
(6) Don’t use vendor exports naïvely.
